Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Posted on October 12, 2007
Joining the ranks of Arafat, Carter, and Mohammed ElBaradei…. All hail the newest Nobel Peace Prize winner, Al Gore! And what better to share the prize with than the U.N.???
Macker wonders how many carbon credits this will cost. Powerline gives perspective on the prizes decline.
Hat tip: Hot Air and Michelle Malkin
But slow down…Scrappleface reports!
Although former Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize this week for his work as a global-warming performance artist, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled early today that President George Bush would receive the gold medal, the diploma and the $750,000.
Heh!
Who else could have won the Nobel prize, if the committee wanted to promote peace and freedom rather than political allies? Well, perhaps they may have considered the hundreds, if ot thousands of monks in Burma who just sacrificed their lives in the pursuit of non-violent regime change. One or more of the people involved in the six-nation talks that has avoided war over North Korea’s nuclear-weapons programs would have also seemed a more germane choice.
I’m with the Czech President on this:
“The relationship between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct,” the statement said. “It rather seems that Gore’s doubting of basic cornerstones of the current civilization does not contribute to peace.”
Klaus said in a recent speech that environmentalists’ efforts to halt global warming “fatally endanger our freedom and prosperity.”
Roundup at PJM
But it’s not all rosy for Crazy Al today. A British judge has just ruled that Gore’s crockumentary is, in fact, political propaganda and must be presented as such in UK schools.
ABC News: An Inconvenient Verdict for Al Gore
The ruling came on a challenge from a UK school official who did not want to show the film to students. High Court Judge Michael Burton said that the film is “substantially founded upon scientific research and fact” but that the errors were made in “the context of alarmism and exaggeration.”
Burton found that screening the film in British secondary schools violated laws barring the promotion of partisan political views in the classroom. But he allowed the film to be shown on the condition that it is accompanied by guidance notes to balance Gore’s “one-sided” views, saying that the film’s “apocalyptic vision” was not an impartial analysis of climate change.
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With all the anger, angst, and hyperventalation generated over AGW and the attacks against people that do not believe in AGW, I wonder what kind of “peace” they were given an award for.
Congratulations to the USA. At last you have something to be proud of.
I wonder if he would have won the peace prize if America wasn’t held responsible for the world’s pollution problem? Would he have won if he, for example, reminded people that every country that signed Kyoto failed to meet their requirements?
I don’t think there’s much doubt that the Nobel Peace Prize has gone the way of the U.N. in terms of credibility. It’s a liberal, humanistic pat-the-secularists-on-the-back sort of award.
A liberal, humanistic pat the secularists-on-the-back sort of award? As opposed to the regressive, anti-human, pat-the-believers-in-fairy-tails sort of award that you would approve of? Why not! Even a pretend cowboy from Crawford could win that one.
If anti-human means godly then I would approve of such an award. My opinion of human nature is that it is that of a beast. The peace prize is meant to advance a political agenda so the fact it is a secularist one is no surprise. I could not think of anyone that deserved a peace prize this year anyways so maybe they were desperate.